Game:

Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction (2005)

Duration: 24:23

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Good improvement! I'm close to my goal of sub 24 now. Its gonna be hard to match this early game. I'll do a full breakdown below with the following format

Split Name
Split time | Split gold | Tier rank (S, A, B, C, D, F)
Description

Ante Up
4:44 | 4:44 | A
Great gold, but not quite an S tier split. I've seen Escargot get some crazy speedbursts over the first hill. I don't know quite how he does them these days but I get the feeling we don't do them the same. I've gotten mine pretty consistent but I never get crazy good speedbursts with my method. I was surprised to get the speedburst I did with such a lousy jump.

10, 7 of clubs
2:11 | 2:11 | A
The heli spawn was amazing, it was closeby and it became hijackable really quick too. Pretty good execution. The 7 could have gone a hair quicker and I didn't get fast dialogue though

Stem the Tide
2:34 | 2:16 | C
I'm surprised this saved time over my last run. Completely missed a jeep at the first checkpoint and overall not great

3, 8, 5 of clubs
1:46 | 1:46 | A
Didn't get the disguise before the 8 so he ran off a little, also not fast dialogue. Great execution, but some bad luck

Foothold
0:59 | 0:58 | A
Been blowing up the helicopter a little early into the hangar to avoid it bouncing off the wall and splattering me, losing some time there for safety

Gimme my Money
1:16 | 1:12 | C
Bad pickup and I got scared and didn't do the 3 point fling

Bait and Switch, 6/9 of clubs
3:21 | 3:15 | D
Lots of dumb little mistakes early on in this split, a bit annoyed because this cost me the sub 24

Bringing Down the House
2:12 | 2:11 | A
Learned something here, if the pilot makes a bad landing in the beginning you need to readjust before calling in the support because you'll be shooting through smoke. Got a clutch shot though and kept the run going

Embedded
4:57 | 4:57 | A
I said in my last run there was gold potential here, but I wasn't expecting 4 seconds of it. There's still potential here too, had a bad dropoff at Nampo

Stats: Had the wrong box clicked in Livesplit for sum of best, it's officially a 23:35 right now, we're about 30 seconds off. Total playtime is up to 18:56:21 so this took about an hour and a half of attempts. Attempt counter is 144 so this took 8 attempts to get

Statistics:
Attempts: Took 19 attempts, up to 163
Sum of Best: 23:28, 30 seconds off, most of it being in Stem the Tide
Total Playtime: 21:18:43, took about 2 and a half hours of attempts

0:00 Introduction
2:35 Ante Up
4:49 10, 7 of clubs
7:00 Stem the Tide
9:37 3, 8, 5 of clubs
11:22 Foothold
12:20 Gimme my Money
13:37 B&S, 6/9 of Clubs
17:00 Bringing Down the House
19:11 Embedded

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